Last year, she told Capital FM that she’s always concerned someone is bugging a room she’s in, or “videoing or recording her ... [t]hat's one of my paranoias,” eerily foreshadowing what happened with Kanye West.

And she has taken serious measures to ensure these things don’t happen. In 2014, Rolling Stonereported that when Swift moved into her $15 million New York apartment, she also paid $5 million for a unit across the hall to house her security team. In the same story, Swift says she's worried about wiretapping: “Don’t even get me started on wiretaps,” she said. “It’s not a good thing for me to talk about socially. I freak out.” She also admits to having considered the possible candidates to bug a Van Nuys recording studio:

“The janitor. The janitor who’s being paid by TMZ. This is gonna sound
like I’m a crazy person—but we don’t even know. I have to stop
myself from thinking about how many aspects of technology I don’t
understand."

She theorizes further about these possibilities:

“‘Like speakers. Speakers put sound out . . . so can’t they take sound
in? Or-she holds up her cellphone-'they can turn this on, right? I'm just saying. We don't even know.’”

But, as Jody Rosen pointed out in a New York magazine story in 2013, Swift has reason to be this vigilant over her own personal safety. Earlier that year, police arrested a man near Swift’s estate in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, to which he had swum two miles so he could meet the young singer. Stalkers have shown up on the premises of her home twice this year alone, so it’s not far-fetched to fear what the power of technology can do—even in the hands of a fellow celebrity.

It’s still not clear as to whether a lawsuit will actually come of this whole ordeal, but Swift’s reaction is almost predictable. She's been on high alert for years; however, all of the preventive measures she's taken couldn't preclude the one flaw in the system: when someone else did secretly record her, not on her home turf.